WSJ's Spencer Ante takes a look at the explosive growth of smartphone, tablet and smart TV apps and how Google's Android apps have given Apple a run for its money. Photo: Google, Inc.

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... the the ... now all now returned to you on your story about Act's chances are you'll get a smartphone at some point today he will use a mobile app and you're not allowed ... the apps business has exploded and is heading toward twenty five billion dollars in sales if the focus of the new Business of Apps feature on WS J dot com so please check that out online ... here to discuss how the industry has blossomed in recent years is the beest corporate debt that appear cheap Spencer Ante joining us now on Sky Spencer thank you so much for joining us this morning ... tell us about how the industry has grown in the past couple years ... while the Abercrombie are ... getting ... harder to go ... at it that way with profit because of the perks ... up along the I phone them here later launch the app store with with that ... talking to the store that basically about software developers to develop little bit of code to pick it ... up on smartphones and to know is ... expected to grow to fifty two percent this year to twenty five billion dollar market ... that's pretty incredible that it wasn't too ... but the rate of about five years ... and one other things that really surprise me in in your story was like a switch which is part of what's behind this and this boom is that people on average are spending two hours a day on ... Sunday now starting to sound like almost TV numbers are in terms of how much time ... we're dedicating to certain ... to certain media as that number expected to go up from two hours to two-and-a-half three hours in coming years ... while it ... would double over the last year from about our did ... say I would expect that number to continue to go up actually I don't know what the actual with that is on on how it works the other half of it ... I've spoken to in a number of people the market opens up to about one two of the ... art out but ... you know it ... two of the utility of keeping the option of the toys that ... you know hundreds of thousands of after work and everything so ... with more choice with more utility people are given ... more time on the runner up and got to know that all of the junior technology with us talk a lot to do that and and cool is unable to work with position better not to take advantage of that growth insiders say the rivalry between Apple and Google's healthful the more about that ... sure ... well suited to sort it out over the head ... with a market ... of two of the last five years ago ... and due to hit you when to fight it with the I phone a huge lead in which he took them about the content with app ... Daddy and know what we are going to really get into that lead to ensure that now ... while it into a software ... market share of the group will collectively ... had ... now be ... Goebel Appstore would all play it that that that that that was the Apple app store because of work from ... a nap although ... Apple does ... have more of an advantage in terms of helping people for big money ... people spend more money on the I phone so part of it to other Android devices ... anyways with apps ensuring you is as follows I mean everybody has friends who are working on on developing apps ... on any given given some advice for those those people out there misleading way over the creation of new apps what broadly ... makes or breaks and how one of the apps and tenor risen to the tothe to the top aside from my visit the major ones like Instagram ... write ... whatever you wanted an actual secret formula ... would say that ... based on the Dow ... while I walked into a paper cup and grab you in the first minute chances are ... you're probably not commit to the future and that that that of a probe into that that that really got a ... deliver value quickly with the Apple guy to to to to come in and that that would agree that don't ... have time to it ... the loser of the Western which tore it up so ... you could use ... and intend to employ ... a clear threat to care about ... what we talk to what executives used up with it into ... three categories out there who really ... stand out into the launch of the most popular ... of them wanted to be forgot up like ... Evernote which allowed people to take note of the faucet ... to open up like Hoover which allow people to find a happy searcher part of the mobile phone ... which is the categories of expression ... the social media boom ... a lot of people use Facebook Mobile people are using Twitter and LinkedIn so ... connecting with people an expression of the huge category of apps developers love with which the emerging category of ... Commerce ... or more people it's hard to actually spend money on their mobiles of like that that that is more comparable ... with other Couric interview was that ... that that would become better ... at ... it intently e-commerce and so ... I wanted to try to do with the women ... who can ... do what ... is going to ensure that they were to go one Kingway which was up to ... some of the e-commerce out ... their merchant and some of the most popular categories ... wonderful arate Spencer E D teehee so much for filling us in on all the apps and games you for tuning in to news that Thompson use of this morning CNET's and